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US4402893A US06/144,988 US14498880A US4402893A US 4402893 A US4402893 A US 4402893A US 14498880 A US14498880 A US 14498880A US 4402893 A US4402893 A US 4402893A
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  • the present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a cellular foamed body of a vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • cellular foamed bodies of vinyl chloride-based resins are prepared in several different ways. Some of the methods are as follows.
  • the vinyl chloride-based resin is admixed with a so-called decomposable foaming agent which is a compound capable of producing gaseous decomposition products by heating and the blend is shaped with heating to effect foaming by use of an extruder machine or an injection machine.
  • a so-called decomposable foaming agent which is a compound capable of producing gaseous decomposition products by heating and the blend is shaped with heating to effect foaming by use of an extruder machine or an injection machine.
  • a paste-like plastisol is prepared by blending a vinyl chloride-based resin and a plasticizer and the plastisol is converted into foams by mechanical entrainment of air or, alternatively, the plastisol is admixed with a decomposable foaming agent followed by subsequent heating to effect simultaneous foaming and gelation into a desired foamed body.
  • a blend of a vinyl chloride-based resin with a decomposable foaming agent is shaped by rolling or other suitable means at a temperature below the decomposition temperature of the foaming agent and the thus shaped body is heated at a temperature-higher than the decomposition temperature of the foaming agnet to effect expansion into a foamed body.
  • a metal mold is filled with a mixture of a vinyl chloride-based resin and a decomposable foaming agent with optional admixture of a volatilizable foaming agent, a resin-swelling organic solvent and a softening agent and the mixture heated under pressure in the metal mold to be molten and gelled is taken out of the metal mold after cooling. The thus shaped body taken out of the metal mold is then heated to effect expansion into a foamed body.
  • the above described methods have their respective drawbacks or disadvantages.
  • a rigid or semi-rigid foamed body of high expansion cannot be obtained by the above described first to the third methods.
  • the fourth method is necessarily carried out batch-wise taking a long time for obtaining a foamed body with the complicated steps of the process resulting in increase of the production cost of the finally obtained products of the foamed bodies.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a novel and improved method for the continuous and convenient preparation of a cellular foamed body of a vinyl chloride-based resin free from the above described drawbacks and disadvantages in the prior art methods and the inventive method is basically applicable to the process of extrusion-expansion.
  • the method of the present invention comprises heating a composition composed of 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride-based resin, from 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of a nucleating agent and from 0.3 to 30 parts by weight of a foam-conditioning resin, which is selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins and styrene-based resins, at a temperature between 60° and 250° C. under a superatmospheric pressure so as that the composition is converted into an at least partly gelled mass, pressurizing a volatilizable foaming agent which is a specified organic solvent having a boiling point of 90° C.
  • a foam-conditioning resin which is selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins and styrene-based resins
  • the above described steps of the inventive method are conveniently carried out in an extruder machine conventionally used in shaping of a thermoplastic resin.
  • Foamed bodies of high expansion having a fine and uniform cell structure can be prepared easily and continuously with remarkably low production costs.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional diagram of a single screw extruder for use in the present process and a corresponding temperature distribution graph for the single screw.
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional diagram of a double screw extruder for use in the present process and a corresponding temperature distribution graph for the double screw.
  • the principal ingredient of the resin composition used in the inventive method is a vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • the resin is not limited to homopolymeric polyvinyl chloride resins but any kinds of copolymers, graft copolymers and polymer blends are used equally in so far as the main component thereof, say, 50% by weight or more, is the vinyl chloride constituent.
  • Monomers copolymerizable with vinyl chloride to give a copolymer are exemplified by vinyl esters such as vinyl acetate, vinylidene halides such as vinylidene chloride, acrylic acid and esters thereof, methacrylic acid and esters thereof, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, maleic acid and esters and anhydride thereof, fumaric acid and esters thereof, olefins such as ethylene and propylene, vinyl ethers and the like.
  • Vinyl chloride can be copolymerized with one or more of these comonomers.
  • Resins to be blended with a polyvinyl chloride resin to give a polymer blend should have a good compatibility with the polyvinyl chloride resins and are exemplified by polyvinylidene chloride, copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate, ABS resins, MBS resins, and chlorinated polyethylenes as well as synthetic rubbers such as NBR and SBR.
  • particularly preferred resins are the copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate since these resins have good gelation behavior in the fabrication and the melt viscosity of the resin can be adjusted with ease at a suitable value so that a foamed body of high expansion having a fine and uniform cellular structure can readily be obtained with the resin.
  • the nucleating agent as the second component in the resin composition used in the inventive method serves to give nuclei for the incipient gas cells throughout the gelled mass of the resin composition.
  • the requirement for the nucleating agent is that it can be distributed uniformly and finely in the gelled mass of the resin composition in the form of fine solid particles or in the form of incipient bubbles of a gas which are not dissolved away in the matrix phase of the gelled resin composition.
  • a class of materials suitable as the nucleating agent is a finely divided solid particulate material typically belonging to the class of so-called inorganic fillers though not limited thereto.
  • inorganic fillers are calcium carbonate, talc, barium sulfate, fumed silica, titanium dioxide, clay, aluminum oxide, bentonite, diatomaceous earth and the like.
  • the second class of the materials suitable as the nucleating agent is a compound capable of producing gaseous products on heating. Accordingly, the compounds of this class are selected from the so-called decomposable foaming agents conventionally used in the manufacture of cellular foamed plastic materials.
  • the nucleating agent of this class may be either an inorganic or an organic decomposable foaming agent.
  • the inorganic decomposable foaming agent is typically sodium hydrogencarbonate or potassium hydrogencarbonate. Even carbonates of sodium or potassium can be used as the nucleating agent when combined with a suitable acid compound such as citric acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid and the like as well as boric acid.
  • Suitable organic decomposable foaming agents as the nucleating agent are exemplified, for example, by azo compounds such as azodicarbonamide, azobisisobutyronitrile, diazoaminobenzene, diethylazo dicarboxylate, diisopropylazo dicarboxylate and the like, foaming agents belonging to nitroso compounds such as N,N'-dinitroso pentamethylenetetramine, N,N'-dimethyl-N,N'-dinitroso terephthalamide and the like and foaming agents belonging to sulfonylhydrazide compounds such as benzene sulfonylhydrazide, toluene sulfonylhydrazide, 4,4'-oxybis (benzene sulfonylhydrazide), 3,3'-disulfonehydrazide phenylsulfone, toluene disulfonylhydrazone,
  • the nucleating agent is, in the case where it is a powdery material, desirably a finely divided powder having an average particle diameter not exceeding 30 ⁇ m or, preferably, not exceeding 10 ⁇ m. This is because a nucleating agent having a particle diameter coarser than 30 ⁇ m cannot give a sufficient flowability to the resin composition under shaping leading to inferior surface gloss and appearance of striation along with decreased uniformity of the cellular foam structure.
  • the nucleating agent is a compound of the decomposable foaming agent, it has desirably a decomposition temperature lower than the temperature of shaping of the vinyl chloride-based resin in the resin composition.
  • the amount of the nucleating agent in the resin composition should be at least 0.01 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of the vinyl chloride-based resin. This is naturally because smaller amounts of the nucleating agent than above cannot give a foamed body with fine and uniform cellular structure.
  • the upper limit of the amount of the foaming agent differs widely depending on the type of the nucleating agent.
  • the nucleating agent of inorganic filler type can be used in an amount of 20 parts by weight or more per 100 parts by weight of the vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • much larger amounts, say, 40 to 50 parts by weight of an inorganic filler may be used per 100 parts by weight of the resin when certain specific properties, e.g. flame retardancy, are desired in the resultant foamed cellular product although no additional effect is obtained as a nucleating agent by the use of such an inorganic filler in excess of 20 parts by weight.
  • the amount of a nucleating agent of the type of decomposable foaming agent should be limited not to exceed 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the resin since larger amounts of the nucleating agent of such a type lead to an excessive volumes of the gaseous decomposition products therefrom resulting in coarse and rugged cellular structure of the foamed body products.
  • the foam conditioning resin as the third component in the resin composition used in the inventive method is essential for accelerating gelation of the vinyl chloride-based resin and increasing or adjusting the melt viscosity of the resin to an optimum level.
  • this foam conditioning resin By the addition of this foam conditioning resin, coalescence of the foam cells or contraction of the once formed cellular structure can be effectively prevented by increasing the cohesive tenacity of the resin melt so as that the gases produced from the foaming agent are readily retained in the molten resin and prevented from dissipation out of the resin to give a good foamed body with high expansion.
  • This foam conditioning resin exhibits remarkable synergistic effects when used in combination with the above mentioned nucleating agent to give a foamed body of high expansion having a fine and uniform cellular structure with excellent appearance.
  • Suitable foam conditioning resin is selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins and styrene-based resins as described below in detail.
  • the foam conditioning resin should be capable of accelerating uniform gelation of the vinyl chloride-based resin, adequately increasing the melt viscosity of the resin, imparting rubbery elasticity to the resin composition and improving the cohesive tenacity of the vinyl chloride-based resin molten at an elevated temperature.
  • acrylic resin or a styrene-based resin having a reduced viscosity of at least 3.0 dl/g or, preferably, at least 5.0 dl/g as measured at 25° C. in a chloroform solution of 0.1 g/100 ml concentration with a sufficiently large degree of polymerization and having good compatibility with the vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • the acrylic resin suitable as the foam conditioning resin is a polymethyl methacrylate or a copolymer of which the main component, say, at least 40% by weight, is methyl methacrylate copolymerised with one or more of comonomers copolymerizable therewith.
  • the comonomers are exemplified by styrene, acrylonitrile, vinyl esters such as vinyl acetate, acrylic acid and esters thereof such as methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, isobutyl arcylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and the like and methacrylic acid and esters thereof other than methyl methacrylate such as ethyl methacrylate, n-butyl methacrylate, 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate and the like.
  • the acrylic resin as the foam conditioning resin may be any one of commercially available resins but it is recommendable to use a resin prepared by emulsion polymerization.
  • the resin composition supplied to an extruder machine contains an emulsion-polymerized resin, smoothness of feeding is improved and blockage of the feeder inlet does not take place so that stable feeding of the resin composition is ensured and the pressure, torque and rate of extrusion of the extruder machine can be constant to give foamed product with uniform quality.
  • the styrene-based resin used as the other class of the foam conditioning resin may be a polystyrene but is desirably a copolymer of which the main component, say, from 60 to 95% by weight, is styrene copolymerized with acrylonitrile and/or a monomer copolymerizable with these monomers. Copolymers of styrene and acrylonitrile are particularly preferred.
  • esters of acrylic acid such as methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, isobutyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and the like
  • esters of methacrylic acid such as methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, n-butyl methacrylate, 2-ethylhexyl metahcrylate and the like
  • maleic acid and fumaric acid and esters thereof and maleic anhydride
  • the styrene-based resin used as the foam conditioning resin may be one of commercially available resins but it is recommendable to use a styrene-based resin prepared by emulsion polymerization in view of relatively high degree of polymerization of the resin and good dispersibility thereof in the vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • the amount of the foam conditioning resin in the resin composition used in the inventive method is in the range from 0.5 to 30 parts by weight or, preferably, from 3 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the vinyl chloride-based resin as the principal component of the resin composition. This is because an amount of the foam conditioning resin smaller than the above given range naturally cannot give the above described desired effects while no particular additional improvements can be obtained by the use of the resin in an amount in excess of the above given range with, instead, certain adverse effects such as the decrease of the flame retardancy inherently possessed by the vinyl chloride-based polymers.
  • the resin composition used in the method of the present invention it is advisable that the resin composition is admixed with a decomposition aid when the nucleating agent is a compound belonging to the class of decomposable foaming agents in order to adjust the decomposition temperature of the foaming agent so as that the gaseous decomposition products are formed at a temperature lower than the temperature of fabrication of the vinyl chloride-based resin.
  • a decomposition aid is exemplified by oxalic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, urea, and a metal soap such as zinc or copper soap.
  • the resin composition used in the inventive method is admixed with conventional additive ingredients, according to need, such as stabilizers, lubricants, plasticizers, modifiers, flame retardants, foam conditioning agents other than the above described foam conditioning resins, ultraviolet absorbers, anti-oxidants, antistatic agents, pigments and dyes.
  • conventional additive ingredients such as stabilizers, lubricants, plasticizers, modifiers, flame retardants, foam conditioning agents other than the above described foam conditioning resins, ultraviolet absorbers, anti-oxidants, antistatic agents, pigments and dyes.
  • the first step of the inventive method is to blend the above described components, i.e. the vinyl chloride-based resin, nucleating agent, foam conditioning resin and other optional ingredients into a uniform resin composition.
  • the thus obtained resin composition is then subjected to heating under pressure to be converted into an at least partly gelled mass.
  • This step is conveniently undertaken in an extruder machine to which the resin composition is supplied continuously.
  • the temperature at which gelation of the resin composition takes place is preferably in the range from 60° to 250° C. although the optimum temperature is dependent on the resin composition and the volatilizable foaming agent pressurized in the following step. In any way, the resin composition cannot be gelled at a temperature lower than 60° C.
  • the pressure of the resin composition in this step is not particularly limitative but it is preferably superatmospheric. These conditions of temperature and pressure are readily satisfied in an extruder machine conventionally used for the fabrication of various kinds of thermoplastic resins.
  • a volatilizable foaming agent as specified below is pressurized into the thus at least partly gelled resin composition under pressure to be absorbed and impregnated therein. It should be noted in this case that the resin composition has been gelled not completely but on the way of proceeding gelation leaving considerable amounts of ungelled resin particles in order to ensure rapid and smooth absorption of the volatilizable foaming agent into the resin mass.
  • the volatilizable foaming agent used here is preferably an aliphatic hydrocarbon or an aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbon compound having a boiling point of 90° C. or below under atmospheric pressure.
  • suitable aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds are propane, butane, isobutane, pentane, neopentane, n-hexane, iso-hexane, n-heptane and the like
  • suitable aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbon compounds are methyl chloride, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, ethyl chloride, ethylidene chloride, trichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichlorofluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethane, bromotrifluoromethane, tetrafluoromethane, dichlorofluoromethane, chlorotrifluoromethane, bromotrifluoroe
  • the boiling point of the volatiliable foaming agent is not exceeding 90° C. or, preferably, not exceeding 70° C. since the use of a volatilizable foaming agent having a boiling point higher than 90° C. leads to remarkable shrinkage or contraction of the foamed body as well as to lesser uniformity of the cellular structure of the foamed body.
  • the amount of the volatilizable foaming agent to be pressurized and absorbed into the resin composition in the at least partly gelled condition under pressure is in the range from 1 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the vinyl chloride-based resin although the amount should be determined taking into account the desired ratio of expansion of the finally obtained products of the foamed body.
  • the most convenient way for practicing the method of the present invention is to use an extruder machine into which the resin composition is continuously supplied and converted into a gelled mass by heating under pressure in the extruder machine and the volatilizable foaming agent described above is pressurized into the cylinder of the extruder machine at the halfway thereof where the resin composition is in a partly gelled condition under heat and pressure.
  • the pressurization of the volatilizable foaming agent should desirably be carried out at the stage where the resin composition is in the partly gelled condition in order to ensure rapid and smooth absorption of the foaming agent into the resin mass. It is essential, however, that the resin composition having been impregnated with the volatilizable foaming agent is brought into complete gelation to give a uniformly gelled mass by further heating and kneading before it is brought under a reduced pressure to effect expansion into a cellular foamed body having a uniform and fine cellular structure.
  • the optimum conditions for the extrusion foaming by use of an extruder machine are determined depending on the resin composition and the volatilizable foaming agent as well as the desired ratio of expansion of the finished foamed products.
  • the resin composition is heated and kneaded in the cylinder of the extruder machine under pressure at a temperature sufficient to effect gelation of the resin composition and the volatilizable foaming agent is pressurized and absorbed into the resin composition under proceeding gelation through an inlet specially provided in the halfway of the cylinder in which the resin composition is moving.
  • the resin composition thus impregnated with the volatilizable foaming agent is further heated and kneaded to effect complete gelation as it moves in the cylinder toward the die exit. Therefore, the control of the temperature distribution along the cylinder of the extruder machine is very important.
  • the temperature of the resin composition coming out of the die exit is not excessively high by being cooled uniformly to an appropriate temperature in order to ensure desired fineness and uniformity of the cellular structure of the foamed body product.
  • the preferable temperature of the resin composition under extrusion is determined in relation to the flex temperature and the apparent gelation temperature of the resin composition as defined below.
  • suitable extrusion temperature of the resin composition is at least 30° C. or, more preferably, at least 40° C. higher than the flex temperature but not exceeding the apparent gelation temperature or, more preferably, at least 15° C. lower than the apparent gelation temperature of the resin composition.
  • the resin composition impregnated with the volatilizable foaming agent, brought into complete gelation and cooled to the above defined suitable extrusion temperature is then extruded out of the die having a desirably shaped opening under pressure into a zone under reduced pressure, preferably, atmospheric pressure where the resin composition is expanded by the gases produced from the foaming agent into a cellular foamed body with simultaneous cooling.
  • Flex or softening temperature the determination was performed with the resin composition but excluding the foaming agents in accordance with JIS K 6745 by use of a Clash-Berg tester for flex temperature and the temperature at which the shear modulus G was equal to 3.17 ⁇ 10 3 kg/cm 2 was taken as the flex temperature.
  • Apparent gelation temperature the determination was performed by use of a conventional rheometer and the temperature was defined to be the temperature at which, when 2 g of the resin composition excluding the foaming agents was heated in a cylinder with a rate of temperature elevation of 3° C./minute under a load of 150 kg/cm 2 with a plunger, the rate of effluence of the softened or molten resin composition through a nozzle of 1 mm inner diameter and 10 mm length provided on the bottom of the cylinder was equal to 2 mm 3 /second.
  • the temperature of the resin composition under extrusion is very critical and it is desirable that the resin composition impregnated uniformly with the volatilizable foaming agent is cooled down to an appropriate temperature before it is extruded out of the die of the extruder machine to be expanded into a foamed body.
  • the method of the present invention is so effective that a continuous length foamed product of slab, sheet, rod, tube or the like is readily obtained having fine and very uniform cellular structure by use of a die having a corresponding opening mounted on an extruder machine.
  • the extruder machine used in this example had five sections for resin supply, compression, metering, pressure reduction and mixing and the diameter of the screw was 40 mm with a length/diameter ratio of 30.
  • An opening is provided in the cylinder of the pressure reduction section for injecting the volatilizable foaming agent by use of a tandem-type plunger pump.
  • Resin compositions were prepared by blending with a super mixer each 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin or a copolymeric resin of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate as indicated in Table 1 below, 2 parts by weight of a tin-containing stabilizing agent, 1 part by weight of calcium stearate as a lubricant and nucleating agents of inorganic filler type and/or decomposable foaming agent type and acrylic resin of the kind and in amounts described below and indicated in Table 1.
  • Talc a product by Tsuchiya Kaolin Co., Japan, having an average particle diameter of 1 to 3 ⁇ m.
  • Hakuenka calcium carbonate powder, a product by Shiraishi Calcium Co., Japan, having an average particle diameter of 0.02 to 0.03 ⁇ m.
  • Orben a colloidal hydrated aluminum silicate produced by Shiraishi Calcium Co., having an average particle diameter of about 0.5 ⁇ m.
  • Celmic 133 an azodicarbonamide compound produced by Sankyo Kasei, Co., Japan, decomposing at 130° to 180° C.
  • PTS 4-toluene sulfonylhydrazide decomposing at 110° C.
  • AIBN azobisisobutyronitrile decomposing at 100° to 115° C.
  • SHC sodium hydrogencarbonate decomposing at 60° to 150° C.
  • E-1 a copolymeric resin composed of 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 10% by weight of ethyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 10 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • a screw extruder and corresponding temperature distribution graph are shown. This is the type of extruder used in the present example.
  • the temperature chart shows the temperature distribution in the various stages or sections of the extruder. Each of the stage of the extruder are clearly shown and correspond to the horizontal axis of the diagram are designated as C 1 through section D which is the die section.
  • the operating conditions of the extruder machine were as follows.
  • a volatilizable foaming agent which was a 50:50 by weight mixture of butane and trichlorofluoromethane, was injected through the opening in the cylinder by use of a plunger pump in such a rate that the amount of the volatilizable foaming agent in the resin composition was 10% by weight based on the resin composition.
  • the resin composition thus impregnated with the volatilizable foaming agent was, after cooling to about 110°-160° C., extruded through the die to undergo expansion under atmospheric pressure and cooled.
  • the foamed bodies thus obtained were examined visually for the condition of the cellular structure and the bulk density of them were determined to give the results, set out in Table 1.
  • Table 1 the rating of the condition of the cellular structure designated as A, B and C was given according to the following criteria.
  • Resin compositions were prepared each by uniformly blending in a super mixer 100 parts by weight of a copolymeric resin of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate having an average degree of polymerization of 830 in which the content of vinyl acetate was 5% by weight, 2 parts by weight of a tin-containing stabilizing agent, 1 part by weight of calcium stearate and nucleating agents, i.e. talc and/or Celmic 133, and an acrylic resin in amounts as indicated in Table 2 below.
  • the extruder machine and the conditions for extrusion expansion were the same as in Example 1, in which the kind and the amount of the volatilizable foaming agent impregnated in the resin composition were as shown in Table 2.
  • the acrylic resin denoted as E-1 was the same one as used in Example 1 and the acrylic resin denoted as K125 in Table 2 was a polymethyl methacrylate-based resin having a reduced viscosity of 4.5 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C., which was a product by Rohm & Haas Co. and available by the tradename of Paraloid K125.
  • the abridgments for the volatilizable foaming agents appearing in Table 2 have the meaning as follows.
  • TCFM trichlorofluoromethane boiling at 23.7° C.
  • TCFE tetrachlorodifluoroethane boiling at 92.8° C.
  • DCFE dichlorotetrafluoroethane boiling at 3.6° C.
  • the first extruder machine had a diameter of 50 mm with the length/diameter ratio of 30 and the cylinder was provided with an opening for injecting the volatilizable foaming agent at a position 75 cm apart from the hopper, through which the volatilizable foaming agent could be pressurized into the cylinder by use of a tandem plunger pump.
  • a second extruder machine having a diameter of 65 mm with a length/diameter ratio of 30 was connected to the extruding nozzle of the first extruder machine and the second extruder machine was provided with a die with a 8 ⁇ 400 mm opening for shaping a slab.
  • FIG. 2 shows the two-stage extruder as utilized in this experiment with a corresponding temperature distribution diagram.
  • each of the sections of the tandem screw extruders are shown along with their temperature ranges. Also, the particular action taking place in the specific section is indicated.
  • the temperature distribution of the cylinder T 1 , T 2 and T 3 , from the position close to the hopper to the position remote from the hopper in the second-stage extruder machine, and the temperature of the extrusion die D 1 were as shown in Table 3.
  • Resin compositions were prepared each by blending in a super mixer 100 parts by weight of a copolymeric resin of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate having an average degree of polymerization of 760, in which the content of vinyl acetate was 5.8% by weight, 2 parts by weight of a tin-containing stabilizing agent, 1 part by weight of calcium stearate, 1 part by weight of talc as a nucleating agent, 0.5 part by weight of Celmic 133 (see Example 1) as a decomposable foaming agent and either one of the acrylic resins E-2 to E-7 as described below in an amount indicated in Table 3.
  • E-2 a copolymeric resin composed of 80% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 20% by weight of ethyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 2.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • E-3 a copolymeric resin composed of 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 10% by weight of ethyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 3.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • E-4 a copolymeric resin composed of 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 10% by weight of ethyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 7.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • E-5 a copolymeric resin composed of 95% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 5% by weight of ethyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 15.3 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • E-6 a copolymeric resin composed of 95% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 5% by weight of butyl acrylate having a reduced viscosity of 10.7 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • E-7 a copolymeric resin composed of 85% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 5% by weight of butyl acrylate and 10% by weight of butyl methacrylate having a reduced viscosity of 11.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • the thus prepared resin composition was continuously supplied to the extruder machine and a volatilizable foaming agent which was a 50:50 by weight mixture of butane and trichlorofluoromethane was pressurized into the cylinder through the opening by use of a plunger pump at a rate such that the amount of the impregnated volatilizable foaming agent in the resin composition was 10% by weight.
  • a volatilizable foaming agent which was a 50:50 by weight mixture of butane and trichlorofluoromethane was pressurized into the cylinder through the opening by use of a plunger pump at a rate such that the amount of the impregnated volatilizable foaming agent in the resin composition was 10% by weight.
  • the cellular foamed bodies obtained in the above described manner by extrusion expansion were examined for the bulk density in g/cm 3 , condition of cellular structure according to the same criteria as in Example 1, compression strength in kg/cm 2 as measured according to the testing procedure specified in ASTM D1621 and flexural strength in kg/cm 2 as measured according to the testing procedure specified in ISO-R-1209 to give the results set out in Table 3 below.
  • the amount of the foam conditioning resin could be decreased when the resin was a high molecular weight acrylic resin having a large reduced viscosity along with the other advantages of improved gas retention, stabilization of the foam cells and decreased contraction of the extruded foams while an acrylic resin with a smaller molecular weight or insufficient amount of addition of the acrylic resin resulted in remarkable collapse of the foams, large contraction of the extruded foams and coarsening of the cellular structure.
  • Resin compositions were prepared each by blending 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin or a copolymeric resin of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate as indicated in Table 4 below with a similar kind of a nucleating agent or a combination of nucleating agents to those in Example 1 in amounts indicated in Table 4 and a styrene-based resin S-1 which was a copolymer composed of 70% by weight of styrene and 30% by weight of acrylonitrile and having a reduced viscosity of 12 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C. in an amount shown in Table 4.
  • the volatilizable foaming agent injected into the cylinder of the extruder machine was the same mixture as in Example 1 and the amount of impregnation was also 10% by weight based on the resin composition.
  • the foamed bodies exhibited remarkable collapse of the foams immediately after extrusion out of the die exit.
  • Resin compositions were prepared each by blending 100 parts by weight of the same copolymeric resin of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate as used in Example 2, 2 parts by weight of a tin-containing stabilizing agent, 1 part by weight of calcium stearate, talc and/or Celmic 133 as the nucleating agent in amounts as indicated in Table 5 below and the styrene-based resin S-1 in an amount indicated in Table 5.
  • Example 2 The conditions of expansion with the extruder machine were the same as in Example 2 and the kind of the volatilizable foaming agent were also the same as in Example 2, the abridgements for the volatilizable foaming agents being the same as in Table 2.
  • the amount of impregnation of the volatilizable foaming agent was as indicated in Table 5.
  • the formulation of the resin compositions was the same as in Example 3 except that the acrylic resins E-2 to E-7 in Example 3 were replaced with either one of the styrene-based resins S-2 to S-5 as specified below in each of the resin compositions.
  • the amounts of the styrene-based resins in the resin compositions are given in Table 6.
  • S-2 a copolymeric resin composed of 70% by weight of styrene and 30% by weight of acrylonitrile having a reduced viscosity of 2.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • S-3 a copolymeric resin composed of 70% by weight of styrene and 30% by weight of acrylonitrile having a reduced viscosity of 4.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • S-4 a copolymeric resin composed of 70% by weight of styrene and 30% by weight of acrylonitrile having a reduced viscosity of 10.0 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • S-5 a copolymeric resin composed of 75% by weight of styrene and 25% by weight of acrylonitrile having a reduced viscosity of 14.6 dl/g as measured in a chloroform solution at 25° C.
  • volatilizable foaming agent injected into the cylinder of the extruder machine and the amount of impregnation thereof were the same as in Example 3.
  • the amount of the foam conditioning resin could be decreased when the resin was a high molecular weight styrene-based resin having a large reduced viscosity along with the other advantages of improved gas retention, stabilization of the foam cells and decreased condition of the extruded foams while a styrene-based resin having a smaller molecular weight or insufficient amount of addition of the styrene-based resin resulted in remarkable collapse of the foams, large contraction of the extruded foams and coarsening of the cellular structure.
  • Example 3 The effect of the temperature of the resin composition at the exit out of the die was about the same as in Example 3 with an acrylic resin as the foam conditioning resin instead of the styrene-based resin.

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